Questions, and Some Answers, About Caltrans’ New Complete Streets Directive
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Caltrans' new Complete Streets policy directive has been met with interest, heavily tempered with skepticism.
Call to Action: Comment on Ashby/I-80 Widening
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Time is running out to comment on the environmental review of Alameda County and Caltran's Ashby/I-80 Interchange widening project.
That Viral Dodge Ad Isn’t the First Time Automakers Compared Drivers to ‘Predators’
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A new viral Dodge seems like a new low for the notoriously toxic automaker — but it’s just the latest chapter in the company's promotion of the deadliest driving behaviors.
Talking Headways Podcast: Why a City Is Not a Computer
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This week we’re joined by Shannon Mattern, professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research, who talks with us about her new book, "A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences." We discuss the ideas of smartness versus wisdom, maintenance as a way of absorbing information, and the city as a processing machine.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Can only tragic deaths make communities take traffic dangers seriously? (Diablo)
- San Francisco has begun lowering speed limits on some streets (SF Gate)
- California Budget and Policy Center and Legislative Analyst Office release analyses of Governor’s budget proposal
- Newsom touts transportation, infrastructure elements of budget proposal (San Jose Spotlight)
- Assembly Speaker Rendon signals that he’ll keep trying to kill high speed rail (Mercury News)
- And out the other side of his mouth, Rendon complains that California is no longer a climate leader (KCRW)
- Spin to suspend e-scooter services in Sacramento, other cities (Mass Transit)
- Don’t Look Up is missing a real call to action (In These Times)
- OMG! “Environmentalists” think nuclear energy is “clean” (Grist)
- More legislators decline to run for re-election (CalMatters)
- Bike mechanics plead with manufacturers to stop making crap bikes (Vice)
- Every California county has high COVID rates (KTLA)
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Councilmember Cedillo Is the One Who Yanked Approved Spring Street Bridge Bike Lanes
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"The council office has safety concerns over the lack of continuity of bicycle lanes... Therefore final restoration signing and striping will be deleted from this contract and addressed... at a later time."
Commentary: Ban Cars on JFK from the Panhandle to the Sea
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Supervisor Connie Chan wants 'compromise'? Okay, motorists can use Fulton, Lincoln, and Crossover
Why Tesla Can Program Its Cars to Break Road Safety Laws
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The controversial automaker introduced a new feature that allows drivers to pick one of three custom driving profiles: "chill," "average," and "assertive."
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- How the climate change metaphor in “Don’t Look Up” could be more accurate (Heated)
- California DMV initiates a review of Tesla’s self-driving features (Washington Post, Reuters)
- Berkeley wants a ferry to SF, but it will cost money it doesn’t have – and other marina users would still get nothing (Berkeleyside)
- LA Metro to get $2.4 billion in federal grants – for operations (Patch)
- Governor’s budget: $10b for electric cars (Transport Topics)
- …and “significant” transit, rail funding (Progressive Railroading)
- Governor’s budget aligns with Bay Area priorities (The Bay Link)
- Transit news bits (Railway Age)
- Walking routes around San Diego (San Diego Magazine)
- Tolling plan for Treasure Island takes shape (SF Examiner)
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Oakland TV Station Displays Hella Windshield Perspective
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Hey KTVU, where's your story about dangerous drivers using bike lanes?
Cargo Bikes Are Revolutionizing Family Life in New York
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Parents with conventional or electric bikes are loading up their kids (sometimes several kids!) and taking them everywhere.